Written about the Chinese cultural revolution where the educated were reduced to subservient jobs and their children where taken to remote areas and re-educated to be peasants. This story is lighter and more whimsical than most I have read in this setting. There is plenty of grim events, but th...
«Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise» (2000) est un œuvre impeccable où chaque mot a son importance et touche juste. Sur une histoire très simple (la découverte de l’amour par de jeunes gens), l’auteur Dai Sijie insère dans son récit de références à la situation en Chine de Mao. L’histoire se ...
I loved his other book which was Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress but this one did not impress me. It was about a search for an ancient scroll and the story keeps geting sidetracked by stories about the languages on the scroll and the harsh life of the people trying to find it. There wer...
I gave this book a real shot. I need to admit that I only read it thoroughly up until about the 63rd page and then a skimmed the rest... It's sad because I was really excited and looking forward to reading this one. While reading it, it felt like the author was just rambling on in a stream of con...
( عند اجتيازنا لصالة الطعام ، تناول ( لو ) حقيبة الكتب ، بعد ساعة من الركض المجنون على الطريق ، وبعد أن قررنا أخيراً أن نستريح ، فتحها .كان ذيل الثور بنهايته المشعرة و الملطخة ببقع الدم الداكنة يستلقي على أكوام الكتب ، كان طويلاً بشكل استثنائي ، انه ذلك الذيل الذي اوقع نظارات ( بينوكلار ) بلا ...
Out in the field I threw myself wholeheartedly into a project to build a school in northern Mali, three hundred kilometres from Bamako, near the former capital of the Songhai Empire.With a naivety which now brings a smile to my lips, I could already see myself as a schoolteacher surrounded by doz...